The column that asks, how is your revaluation going so far, Bridgeton citizens, and, remember, the revaluators have to carry identification?

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Good afternoon!

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This is the vacation season when all Little League fields lay fallow and street corners load up in poor sections, which is just about everywhere now.

But no rain.

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The good thing is, Bridgeton built those new outdoor basketball courts at a time when they said you couldn't have basketball outdoors without a shooting or drug dealers.

It was dangerous at the old Tin Can in the Second Ward, although that's where most of Bridgeton High's greatest basketball players came from.

But, now, the outdoor courts are a miracle, at least so far.

There was a time when Bridgeton Babe Ruth couldn't play a game nearby without being hassled by basketball players.

Now there are basketball leagues going on that don't stop in June because of all-stars or vacations.

And if you have made the difference, John Fuqua, and if you have helped, Willie Sanchez, you should be writing books on how you did it.

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A woman calls from Penns Grove and she's all upset about police officers being assaulted by officials who should know better, including a teacher who is also a councilwoman.

Is this true?

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We had better get football coach Kemp Carr back here, and soon.

He could relate to the kids and get the most out of them.

You know what is going to happen.

It will be a very successful charter school like we covered in Camden that will soon be in the paper.

Without an entrance exam.

That's what is going to happen.

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And just how much did Carr win in his lawsuit?

The woman who called said he sued for $300,000.

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Hey, put Route 295, Exit 4 on football jerseys if you can get the kind of response Carr did.

It can't be any more disorderly than what is going on now.

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DEAN DELLAQUILA

You want to know what is wrong with Bridgeton?

They have the wrong man running public works.

Dean Dellaquila should be running code enforcement.

You want to know why?

Because he's charismatic.

Like Kevin Maloney.

Kevin's charismatic, too.

You need that in a government run by charismatic Mayor Albert Kelly.

Dellaquila responds immediately.

Cohansey Street back business district back yard in Bridgeton.

You see that stuffed chair in the photo.

That has been in back of a North Laurel Street business for months, and seen by everyone using the drive-through bank on Cohansey Street because it's a one-way street and you have to go by it to get to Washington Street.

And look at the weeds around it.

It's a forest.

Dellaquila would have had that chair removed in seconds, maybe with someone in it..

That is not a vacant house where you have to run down the owner and send him threats and go to court and all that other stuff.

That is just a misplaced chair

It's sad.

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We're covering you next Sunday, Jim Bergmann.

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MY KIND OF TOWN:Where Mike Abbott continues to work on some great stuff underground in Bridgeton.